15 books that influenced me, a meme

[chickenfeet2003]

via ironed_orchid and others

Take no more than 15 minutes to produce a list of 15 books that have influenced you in style, ideas, relationships, language, or other ways that you find important, and/or books that have really stayed with you -- you keep thinking of that quote, you are always remembering that character, you are frequently reminded of that moment

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[chickenfeet2003]

Some of them, some of the time!

[chickenfeet2003]

For some reason historians, on average, seem to write better than most academics (though some physicists are pretty good too). I've never been quite sure why. Maybe there is less BS in history than some other disciplines?

I'm sure there are times when I sound like a snarky old polemicist.